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A. J. K. GENELLA. FRAUD PREVENTIVBBOTTLE.

APPLIGATION FILED DBO. 5. 1905.

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l No. 833,684. PATBNTED 00T. 1e, 1906. A. J. K. GEMELLA.

FRAUD PRVENTIVE BOTTLE. APPLloAT-ION F'ILED DBO. 5, 1905.

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ALPHONSE J. K. GENELLA, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

FRAUD-PREVENTIVE BOTTLE..

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 16, 1906.

Application iiled December 5, 1905. Serial No. 290,402.

To all whom it muy concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHONSE J. K. GE-

.NELLA, a citizen of the United States, resid- Preventive Bottles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in fraud-preventive bottles and similar liquidcontaining receptacles of that class wherein it is desired to detect the attempted refilling of the receptacle, as contradistinguished to a bottle incapable of refilling.

Broadly speaking, the invention resides in providing a bottle or similar receptacle having a main and auxiliary compartment which are termed the 4 main chamber and neckchamber, separated by an apertured partition, in combination with a telltale device coperating with said neck-chamber in such manner that the attempted refilling of the bottle by immersion will be indicated by the telltale device.

Another feature of the invention is to so protect the ducts communicating between.

the neck-chamber and main chamber as to prevent the connection of a iilling-tube therewith.

Other features of novelty reside in the details of construction appearing from the following description and which will be more succinctly pointed out in the claims.

To more fully understand the invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, illustrating a practical embodiment of the same, in 4which like numerals indicate the same parts 1n the several views, and 1n which- Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section through the bottle and closure therefor, the

lower portion of the main chamber being broken away. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal transverse section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a top plan view with the neck-chamber closure removed. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the neck-chamber closure, and Fig. 6 is a bottom plan view of same. y

The bottle proper is divided into two chambers, the lower one, forming the liquidconmain chamber7 and the upper one, copertaining chamber, being designated as the referred to. be initially employed for lling the bottle, it

ating with the telltale device, being termed for convenience the neck-chamber.

1 designates the lower body portion of the bottle, forming the main chamber 2, and 3 is a transverse partition separating said main chamber from the neck-chamber 4, communication between said chambers being by means of the air and liquid ducts 5 and 6, having a common wall 7 and pro`ecting upwardly into the neck-chamber an terminating in a common opening 8, adapted to receive suitable stoppering means, hereinafter While one of these ducts may is desirable, as illustrated, to have an additional enlarged duct 9 for filling purposes,

which duct 9 may be stoppered with the lusual cork 10.

Within the neck-chamber 4, which may be of oval conformation, as .indicated particularly in Fig. 4, is provided an upright partition 11, having a groove 12 in its top edge horizontally disposed with reference to said neck-chamber and located adjacent the upper ends of said ducts 5 and 6. This upright partition extends transversely of the neckchamber and is spaced from the wall of the latter to form therewith a recess or catchbasin 13, located below the groove 14 in the wall of the neck-'chamber and forming a portion of the discharge-outlet when theparts are finally assembled.

The closure for the neck-chamber is illustrated as comprising a main body portion 15, having the recess 16 cut therein and extending substantially therearound, said recess adapted to receive a telltale device 18 of absorbent material and communicating through openings 19 with the neck-chamber 4 at a predetermined distance above the partition or wall 3. This closure is also recessed, as at 20, to receive the duct 9, and the lower portion is cut away, forming a recess between the depending side walls 21, adapted to receive the upper ends of the ducts 5 and '6. The closure is also provided with the horizontally-disposed groove 22, registering with the groove 12 in the upright partition and having a curved surface, as at 23, forming with the wall of the neck-chamber an enlarged portion or passage-way comprising a part of the outlet-conduit, and the curved face 24 being also grooved to register with the groove 14 of the wall and terminating in the opening 25, disposed in the flange por- IIO tion 26 of the closure. It is obvious, however, "thatithe formation of the outlet-conduit may be other than described.

For a purpose hereinafter referred to there is also provided in the face of the curved wall 23 a blind recess 23a', the lower wall of which is preferably formed by a tongue or lip 231?, projecting beyond the groove 22 into the outlet-conduit opposite the curved wall 14a in such manner as to be disposed within the arc of the groove 14.

A recess sealed by the glass-plate 27 is also formed in the top face of the closure above said recess 16 and is adapted to receive a label printed in running colors affected by the moisture of said absorbent material 18, thus acting to detect any attempt at re'lling the bottle, or the absorbent material 18 might contain suitable coloring-matter, or a label might be disposed within the recess 16, containing said absorbent material, the particular details of mounting the label being imm aterial in the accomplishment of the broad idea of affording a telltale device operating upon the rise of liquid above a predetermined level in said neck-chamber, and, indeed, it is not absolutely necessary that the telltale device be a part of the stopper or closure itself.

28 designates a channel cut in the stopper, through which is passed a wire 29, carrying `at its inner end a cork or other suitable closing means 30 for the upper ends of the ducts 5 and 6.

While in the drawings the inner end of the channel 28 is shown as being disposed just to one side of the ducts 5 and 6, it will be obvious that the inner or lower end of this channel may be further removed out of alinement from these ducts, so that there could absolutely be no communication between this channel and the ducts.

In originally filling the bottle, if the enlarged duct 9 is not employed, the main chamber may be filled through one of the smaller ducts 5 or 6, or where the large duct 9 is employed the bottle is preferablyv filled therethrough and this duct then," corked.

The smaller ducts are then closed by the stopper 30, it being understood that the wire 29 is sufficiently long to allow this to be done before the insertion of the closure 15, the

slack in the wire 29 being taken up and cut away when the closure is inserted, the free end being bent into a suitable loop 29a. Upon the closure 15 being placed within the bottle with the telltale device sealed therein the closure itself is suitably sealed within the neck-chamber, it being of a contour to snugly lit in the chamber with the recess 20 over the duct 9 and the edges 31 against the inside face of the partition 11. The object of initially corking the ends of the tubes 5 and 6 is to prevent the discharge of the liquid into the neck-chamber and hence to the telltale material while the bottled goods are in transit, it being understood that this stopper 30 is to be withdrawn through the medium of the wire 29 when the bottle is first opened.

From the construction, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, it will be obvious that it is impossible to insert a tube through the outlet-opening in such a manner as to form a communication with either the tubes 5 or 6, both owing to the disposition of the grooves 14 and 12 and the interposition of the lip 231 and recess 23a, for it will be seen that if it is attempted to insert a exible tube through the outlet-opening formed by the curves 14 and 24 in following the curve the end of such flexible tube, striking the curved shoulder 14, will be projected transversely of the outlet-conduit into engagement with the lip 23h, forming the` bottom of the blind recess. On the other hand, if it is attempted to fill the bottle by immersing the same it is equally obvious that the flow of incoming liquid would be delivered through the openings 19 to the absorbent material before reaching the top of the tubes 5 and 6, and consequently would affect the coloring-matter of the telltale device, indicating that the bottle has been refilled.

l/Vhile in the foregoing I have described and in the drawings illustrated an embodiment of the invention, it will be understood that it is only as an illustration of the application of same, and I do not restrict myself to the precise form shown and described. For instance, as previously stated, the inner end of the channel 28 may be differently disposed relatively to the ducts 5 and 6, and also the particular form of the outlet-conduit may be varied.

l/Vhat I claim is* 1. The combination with a liquid-receptacle partitioned to form a main chamber, a neck-chamber and a communicating opening therebetween, the wall of said neck-chamber being provided with a catch-basin eX- tending above the partition between said chambers and in communication with said neck-chamber, and said neck-chamber being provided with an outlet communicating with said catch-basin of a closure for said neckchamber, and a telltale device communicating with said neck-chamber and operating' `up on the rise of liquid above a predetermined level in said neck-chamber, substantially as described.'

21 The combination with a liquid-receptacle partitioned to form a main chamber, a neck-'chamber and a communicating opening "therebetween, of an upright partition within said neck-chamber and forming a catch-basin with the outer wall thereof, a closure grooved to aline with grooves formed in said upright partition and the wall ofsaid neck-chamber, forming a discharge-outlet communicating with said catch-basin and said neck-chamber, and a telltale device communicating with said neck-chamber and operating upon the rise of liquid above a prede- IOO IIO

termined level in said neck-chamber, substantially as described.

' 3. The combination with a liquid-receptacle partitioned to Jform a main chamber, a neck-chamber and a communicating opening therebetween, of a closure for said neck-chamber provided with a recess communicating at its lower portion with said neck-chamber and adapted to contain telltale means operating upon the continued rise of liquid in said neck-chamber above a predetermined level, and a discharge-outlet being provided for said neck-chamber, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a liquid-receptacle partitioned to form a main chamber, a neck-chamber, and a communicating opening therebetween, of a closure for said neckchamber recessed to receive an absorbent telltale device and communicating at its lower portion with said neck-chamber a predetermined distance above the partition between said inain chamber and neck-chamber a discharge-outlet being provided for said neck-chamber, substantially as described.

5. The combination with a liquid-receptacle partitioned to form a main chamber and a neck-chamber, said neck-chamber communicating with the exterior of the receptacle,

of a duct projecting upwardly into said neckchamber and forming a communication between said chambers, a closure for said neckchamber having a depending wall terminating intermediate of the partition between said chambers and the top of said duct, and a telltale device of absorbent material carried by said closure and communicating with said neck chamber through an aperture formed in said depending wall, substantially as described.

6. The combination with a liquid-receptacle partitioned to form a main chamber, a neck-chamber, and a communicating opening therebetween, a closure for said neckchamber, said neck-chamber being provided with an outlet-conduit communicating therewith in a substantially horizontal direction, thence extending upwardly at an angle toward its discharge end, a protecting lip or tongue projecting laterally of said outlet at its position of communication with said neckchamber and a telltale device communicating with said neck-chamber, and operating upon the rise of liquid above a predetermined level therein, substantially as described.

7. The combination with a liquid-receptacle partitioned to form a main chamber and a neck-chamber, of a plurality of ducts eX- tending upwardly in said neck-chamber and communicating with said main chamber, stoppering means for said ducts, an upright partition in said neck-chamber forming a catch-basin with the outer wall thereof, an enlarged duct extending into said neck-chamber and communicating with said main chamber for filling the latter and stoppering means for said duct, a closure for and of lesser depth than said neck-chamber recessed to receive the upper ends of said ducts and provided with grooves adapted to aline with grooves formed in said upright partition and the wall of said neck-chamber, forming a discharge-outlet communicating with said catchbasin and said neck-chamber, and telltale means of absorbent material operating upon 'the rise of liquid above a predetermined level in said neck-chamber, substantially asdescribed.

`-In testimony whereoi1 I aHiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALPHONSE J. K. GENELLA.

ED. W. HOLLY. 

